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World Sanitation Day: Nigeria Emphasises on Sensitisation Campaign Exercise
Nigerians have been urged to be conscious of issues surrounding sanitation, as significant percentages of preventable communicable diseases are traced to poor environmental sanitat [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2022
Tunisia: Gafsa - Olive Production Estimated At 50,000 Tonnes
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Olive production in the governorate of Gafsa is estimated at 50 thousand tonnes during the agricultural season 2022-2023, equivalent to 10,0 [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2022
USAID Empowers 120 Vulnerable Youths in Borno State
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Northeast Connection has empowered no fewer than 120 vulnerable youths in Borno State, Nigeria with modern farming to [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2022
U.S. announces project to improve cocoa value chain in Nigeria
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress programme has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Lutheran World Relief to strengthen the cocoa value ch [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 24-Sep-2022
Agro-products Rejection: NABG, stakeholders move to ensure implementation of standards, policy framework
Tribune Online Agro-products Rejection: NABG, stakeholders move to ensure implementation of standards, policy framework Agro-products Rejection: NABG, stakeholders move to ensure [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Sep-2022
REDD+ donates Cassava-Processing Machines to Communities in Nasarawa State
The Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has donated a cassava-processing machine to the Bohar community in Akwanaga Local Government Ar [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Sep-2022
Senegal: Landmark Lawsuit Filed Against Senegal Fish Meal Factory #AfricaClimateCrisis
[VOA] Dakar, Senegal -- A Senegalese fisherman's collective is suing the owners of a fish meal factory, which they say has polluted their village and destroyed their livelihoods. T [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Sep-2022
East Africa: Ukraine Donates 50,000 Tons of Wheat to Ethiopia, Somalia
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ukraine's Cabinet Ministry announced that Ukraine will reimburse Ethiopia and Somalia for $11.4 million worth of wheat. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 23-Sep-2022
China’s capture of Ghana’s fishing industry threatening food security
Usually under cover of darkness, fishing vessels take to the waters off Ghana’s coast close to Togo. Chinese-owned vessels proliferate and now appear to control Ghana’s wate [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Government upbeat about ‘YouStart Programme’; banks commit ¢5bn to programme
Government is upbeat about the success of the ‘YouStart Programme’ as local banks commit ¢5 billion from their Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) portfolio to support young e [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Fitch revises again end-year forecast for price of Brent crude to $100 per barrel
Ratings agency, Fitch, has revised its end-year forecast for the price of Brent Crude to $100 per barrel, from the previous $105. It had earlier reviewed its projection to $105, [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
IAA Africa leadership conference returns to Accra for 5th edition
The 5th edition of the International Advertising Association’s (IAA) Africa Rising Leadership Conference is scheduled for the 4th and 5th of October, 2022 at the Labadi Beach Hot [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
We are nowhere near fuel shortage – BOST
The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company is fighting off claims suggesting there is an imminent fuel shortage in Ghana. Some analysts have, in the last few weeks, [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
OFAB Ghana holds 5th media awards ceremony
The 5th Edition of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), Ghana Chapter media awards ceremony came off in Accra. The WAEC Heights event was under the theme “Cre [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
GIFEC climax digital skills training for 2,500 entrepreneurs
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) together with the German Economic Corporation (GIZ) has climaxed its digital skills training for 2,500 entrepreneurs [...]
Country: Ghana
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Insecurity: FCTA Removes Over 2,000 Shanties In Ruga Community
The Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has removed over two thousand (2,000) shanties in Ruga community along airport road. The Director Development Control, [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
National Codex Committee recommits to boosting Agricultural Production/Value Chain
The National Codex Committee (NCC) has restated its commitment to boosting agricultural production and value chain system in Nigeria. The committee, which comprises 38 members, inc [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Africa: UN Chief Calls for Action On Global Food, Climate Crises
[VOA] United Nations -- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to leaders Tuesday to unite and take action to address the problems of a world "teeming with turmoil." [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Ghana: Give us Back Our 17,000 Hectares of Land for Commercial Farming... Torgorme Landowners to Govt
[Ghanaian Times] Torgorme -- The Chiefs and Landowners of Torgorme in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region are calling on the government to return to them the 17,000 hectar [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
South Africa: MPs Call For Heads to Roll at Eskom - South African News Briefs - September 21, 2022
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 21-Sep-2022
Stakeholders elated by progress of agric biotechnology
Tribune Online Stakeholders elated by progress of agric biotechnology STAKEHOLDERS from science and agriculture sector in Africa have expressed satisfaction with the successes rec [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
N-CARES empowers farmers in Oyo LGAs, partners OYSADA on youth empowerment
Tribune Online N-CARES empowers farmers in Oyo LGAs, partners OYSADA on youth empowerment No fewer than hundred youths that have been trained by Oyo State government on agribusine [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Insecurity, low mechanisation, flooding limiting agricultural productivity —AFAN
Tribune Online Insecurity, low mechanisation, flooding limiting agricultural productivity —AFAN LOW mechanisation of agricultural practices and flooding have indentified as majo [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Don cautions farmers against excessive fertiliser application
Tribune Online Don cautions farmers against excessive fertiliser application A Professor of Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry, Lateef Taiwo, has warned farmers against the applic [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Selected Ogun women empowered on fish farming value addition
Tribune Online Selected Ogun women empowered on fish farming value addition With a determination to alleviate poverty among both people in the grassroots areas, the Federal Colleg [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022